Fiscal Year 2013-2015 Special Budget Meeting

OAKLAND POLICE DEPARTMENT DISTRICT INVESTIGATION UNIT DISTRICT-LEVEL INVESTIGATION CASE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM Our Department's reorganization implements a Neighborhood Policing Plan and divides our city into five districts, each commanded by a captain, responsible for the delivery of all police services within the geographical boundaries of each captain's district. There will also be a significant change in the way investigations are conducted as we implement District Investigation Units (DIUs) with investigators and investigative supervisors assigned to each district to provide timely response to, and follow-up investigation of, crimes reported at the district level. Experience has shown that most of the crime that occurs at the neighborhood level is committed by people that live in, or frequent neighborhoods, close to where they commit crime. This is especially true of the pattern crimes of burglary and street robbery. In these crimes, it is often the same individuals or groups that break into homes, commercial premises and cars to steal property; there may be a another group of individuals who specialize in robbing people, forcibly stealing property from them and sometimes shooting, and/or causing serious physical harm, to victims in the process. In Oakland, criminals who specialize as burglars or robbers in their local neighborhoods are responsible for a disproportionate amount of crime, often using the same method of operation (Modus Operandi). These pattern criminals will continue to commit crimes until those crimes are effectively investigated, and the criminals are apprehended, or discouraged by law enforcement, assisted by law-abiding citizens in our communities. It is also true that many of the shootings and serious assaults in our city are a result of disputes between individuals or loosely associated groups or gangs from the neighborhoods where they occur. As you know, the Department is reengineering our CompStat process, and District Investigation Unit supervisors will play a key role at CompStat in managing the investigative process and providing timely accurate information on the status of investigations into crimes and criminals at the district level. The District Investigation Units will be accountable to, and managed by, the district captain. They will also have a second reporting relationship to Criminal Investigation Division supervisors who will provide training and assistance to DIU investigators and continue to coordinate and investigate serious crimes, such as homicides, grave injury assaults, sexual assaults and those pattern robberies, burglaries and other crimes that transcend district boundaries. The Bratton Group, LLC 19